Animated Rain Tutorial

[grimus99xj]

here is my first attempt

[ChitoDog]

here is my first attempt

Whooaa! :shock: That's a pretty awesome rain effect, grimus99xj. It even matches the scenery. Looks like Armageddon or some major War in the background and acid rain is coming down pretty hard. Very cool. 10/10

[yazzaru]

i know that work, but

can`t see the rain

:S why?

Only it becomes blurry

is the color of the image? or what?

[yazzaru]

TT_TT now i know the problem is that the rain can fall only in a way i think that can move the way and move the angle, for that my work dont work.

is for that? u know? ill go to change the angle and if doesn`t work uhmm... ... ill go to start again

[ChitoDog]

TT_TT now i know the problem is that the rain can fall only in a way i think that can move the way and move the angle, for that my work dont work.

is for that? u know? ill go to change the angle and if doesn`t work uhmm... ... ill go to start again

No disrespect yazzaru, but I have no idea what you just said. :shock:

[Goonfella]

Great tut. I only downloaded unFreeze yesterday so I`ll be giving this a go.

Thanks.

[AmazeMe]

I’m trying to do this tut with PDN version 3.36

After I do the step where I have 3 image layers left I try to do step

13

Now copy the bottom layer and make it and image by it self. Do the same thing with the other two layers. [Click Control + A to select the whole layer. Then click Control + C to copy the whole layer. Then click Control + Alt + V to make a new image out of the copied layer

Now by copy I’m assuming you mean duplicate because there is no way to “copy” a layer other than dup it. So I did dup the three layers and renamed each. Then after doing the Control+A to select the layer it ends up selecting ALL 3 layers and I can’t select one layer at a time – so after the Control +C - I hit Control+Alt+V and end up with one image – so apparently, with this version of Paint.Net, this step is useless and the gif rain tut ends unless the veteran PDN users know what’s up and can steer me in the right direction

Thanks!!

[The2Banned2One]

I used the exploding planet then made it rain and this was the effect of a surging planet.

Edit:

@The above poster

I used PDN 3.36. All you do is you select the layer copy it all (ctrl+a then ctrl+c) make a new image and paste it there (ctrl+v). Do this for each image.

[IndiGo-Go Zora]

yea, i was a little overambitous. I tried to make a fire effect along with it, ended up i accidentally did some layers slightly differently from others, resulting in a lot of trying to fix lighting and colors.

i also did the same lightning thing as the guy a few posts up, though i didn't do it intentionally

^pic is thumbnail btw

[÷lcey÷]

hey man for the surging plant i think u shud try a zoom blur instead of a motion blur so it wud like shoot outwards

well i actually put the rain on a sig i made from the pyrosig tut xD

i changed the layer thing to sumthing else i think it was glow but idr, the picture is dark so the regular way didnt show too much

[Negrumir]

Sweet tutorial!!

Anyway, this is what I made.

[Freezo]

Wow. This is pretty good! I like how you used UnFreez, since I already had it downloaded on my computer, and when I clicked ont he topic, I thought I was gonna have to download something else

Here's what I made:

I added some Storm clouds intead of the Blue Sky, since it doesn't make a whole lotta sense.

[Gundam_Meister]

You know, I was always hopping to do this thanks a lot, so now i have a very stupid question :oops: : how do you put your finished product on your post??, I have finished the rain but i dont know how to post it

[maeiounj39]

I like this tutorial. Heres mine so far, but I didn't feel like animating it:

I made the rain different in the front then the back. I follow the tutorial, until some parts. I inversed the noise layer, so the rain could be white. Then I basically duplicated the rain layer and then on my pic layer I seleted the characters only (or select backgroun then inverse). Basically I selected the parts I wanted to have the different shaped rain. Then I went back to the duplicated rain layer and then used motion blur again. Wala, variation of rain.

I really do want to some effects on their faces.

[Mr JoE]

It´s a Great tut! Thanks!!

but do you know if I can like save it in like JPEG. and load it up somewere? or must it be in gif. :?:

[DarkShock]

It´s a Great tut! Thanks!!

but do you know if I can like save it in like JPEG. and load it up somewere? or must it be in gif. :?:

Well you can't save animated images as a JPEG. :wink:

[person_321]

here's what I got

[person_321]

here's what I got

[Dessyis]

I hope this isn't suppose to go in the Q&A section, but I've just started using PDN about a month ago, an have gotten some what adept to it, since I'm not made of money, I don't have flash, but since I've found this tut I've found hope.

My question is this, I'm making a background using the Polished Space scape tut and I was wondering, to make it animated like the rain would I make a separate image with just the stars and set it to overlay then use it in the animator? Another thing, for those who've seen Futurama I was thinking of making a 'fry hole' which would be similar to lightning, but instead of crackle-boom, it would glow. Is there anyway to make it glow and not mess up the 'Star Showers'?

[Dessyis]

I hope this isn't suppose to go in the Q&A section, but I've just started using PDN about a month ago, an have gotten some what adept to it, since I'm not made of money, I don't have flash, but since I've found this tut I've found hope.

My question is this, I'm making a background using the Polished Space scape tut and I was wondering, to make it animated like the rain would I make a separate image with just the stars and set it to overlay then use it in the animator? Another thing, for those who've seen Futurama I was thinking of making a 'fry hole' which would be similar to lightning, but instead of crackle-boom, it would glow. Is there anyway to make it glow and not mess up the 'Star Showers'?

[WestIndian86]

hey guys this is what im trying to do, but it keeps asking me to flatten the image... when i try to save it as a .gif

Please assist - for i have followed everything else to the letter T...

Thanks very much for your help

[WestIndian86]

hey guys this is what im trying to do, but it keeps asking me to flatten the image... when i try to save it as a .gif

Please assist - for i have followed everything else to the letter T...

Thanks very much for your help

[Benji2]

you must save each frame as a different gif and then use unfreez to put them together. Make sure to make a copy of them(just copy and paste into a folder) because i hear that unfreez can mess images up occasionally mess(not harmfull to your computer, just damage the pictures) things up.

Each image must be saved as a gif and put in unfreez

[Benji2]

you must save each frame as a different gif and then use unfreez to put them together. Make sure to make a copy of them(just copy and paste into a folder) because i hear that unfreez can mess images up occasionally mess(not harmfull to your computer, just damage the pictures) things up.

Each image must be saved as a gif and put in unfreez

[WestIndian86]

you must save each frame as a different gif and then use unfreez to put them together. Make sure to make a copy of them(just copy and paste into a folder) because i hear that unfreez can mess images up occasionally mess(not harmfull to your computer, just damage the pictures) things up.

Each image must be saved as a gif and put in unfreez

I appreciate that response, however, that's not what I'm asking - I have done all that but when I'm saving as a .gif it asking me to "flatten" the image.. Is it suppose to do that?

I remember the author stated that you are not to save the original image cuz its layered and you can't do that to a layered one anyways.. So I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.

The first part up to saving the images is fine. Its after that I have the issues. If you can try to simplify it some more - I'm not stupid so please don't treat it as such I am just not understanding that part.

Thanks for your continued help... I think you can call this the still rain -

Truly,

WestIndian86